Search results for 'impending doom'

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Death... The Brutal Way

Anyone who came up in the early 1990s death metal scene and was paying attention knows the place of honor that ASPHYX hold. "The Rack" stands alongside "Left Hand Path", "Cause of Death" and a select few other indisputably classic band- and genre-defining albums. These groups took what was thought t...

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Pray For Villains

Operating safely below the hype machine's radar has allowed DEVILDRIVER to spend the last several years growing and evolving into a beast all their own; blissfully safe from scrutiny's scalpel. While their body of work and rabid fan base undoubtedly ranks them right up there with the likes of LAMB O...

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The Final Conflict: Last Days of God

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the… Holy shit! ACHERON is back! This can't be good for Christianity. It never is. "The Final Conflict: Last Days of God" comes out in celebration of two decades of ACHERON's Satanic death metal, as led by founder/vocalist/bassist/anti-Christian propagandist,...

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Fire! Die In It

We get dozens of unsigned bands' releases every day, submitted for review. Here's how to make yours one of the few that rises to the top of the pile: a) come up with a song title as ridiculously funny as "Egregious Philbin", b) tour with Tesco Vee and THE MEATMEN and live to tell about ...

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Argus

It's that old thing called heavy metal. Remember it? Some bands stick to the tried and true of great riffs, guitar solos that you can feel in your gut, actual singing, and songs that stand the test of time. Some labels do as well, such as traditional metal and doom outfit Shadow Kingdom Records — .....

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SLUMBER: 'Laptop Version' Of New Song Posted Online

Swedish melodic doom/death metallers SLUMBER have posted a "laptop version" of a new track called "Atoma", to be included on the band's forthcoming album, "Resonance". Check it out at this location. Commented the group: "It pains some musicians to show their work in such a premature stage. However,...

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TROUBLE Guitarist To Guest On 'Heavy Metal Mayhem'

Guitarist Bruce Franklin of legendary Chicago doomsters TROUBLE will be interviewed on this Sunday's (August 9) edition of the "Heavy Metal Mayhem" show on Blogtalkradio.com at 6:00 p.m. EST. For more information and to listen to the program live via the Internet, go to this location. TROUBLE recent...

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THE ATLAS MOTH Signs With CANDLELIGHT RECORDS

Candlelight Records has announced the signing of Chicago's THE ATLAS MOTH. The quintet recently completed recording its new album, "A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky", at Phase Recordings in the band's hometown for an October 6 release. Produced by THE ATLAS MOTH, with post-production work handled by Mi...

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TOMBS, ZOROASTER, BISON B.C., THE GATES OF SLUMBER Confirmed For PLANET CARAVAN

TOMBS, ZOROASTER, BISON B.C., THE GATES OF SLUMBER, SOURVEIN, HULL, SALOME and BATILLUS have been confirmed for Planet Caravan, a two-day music festival celebrating the origins of heavy music, set to take place September 18-19 at The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club and Mo Daddy's in Ashevil...

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TROUBLE: Footage Of WACKEN OPEN AIR Performance Available

Fan-filmed video footage of TROUBLE's performance at this year's Wacken Open Air festival — which was held July 30 - August 1, 2009 in Wacken, Germany — can be viewed below (courtesy of "metalwar71"). TROUBLE recently debuted a brand new song, "Hunters Of Doom", from the group's forthcoming CD, "The...

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MANIAC, ANDREW LILES And CZRAL Team Up To Release Album

Former MAYHEM frontman Maniac (also of SKITLIV, SEHNUCHT, BOMBEROS) has teamed up with Andrew Liles (CURRENT 93, NURSE WITH WOUND, SEHNSUCHT) and Czral (VIRUS, VED BUENS ENDE, AURA NOIR, DØDHEIMSGARD) to release an album that he and Czral began working on in 1996. The 14-track LP will have the title...

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BLASPHEMY Announces Two 'Live Rituals'

BLASPHEMY — Canada's "first black metal band" — will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its 1989 "Blood Upon the Altar" demo by preparing a few select concerts — the group's first anywhere in eight years. The band — consisting of 3 Black Hearts of Damnation and Impurity (drums),Nocturnal Grave Desec...

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LAZARUS A.D. Forced To Drop Off 'Baptized In Beer' Tour

Kenosha, Wisconsin-based thrashers LAZARUS A.D. have been forced to pull out of the final four dates on the "Baptized in Beer" tour with BISON B.C. "due to an accident." LAZARUS A.D. says in a statement, "Unfortunately, Dan Gapen [guitar, vocals] broke his hand last night in Vegas and will not be ab...

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SYRACH Parts Ways With Bassist, Announces Replacement

Bassist Ørjan "Hjarandr" Setvik will play his final show with Norwegian doom metallers SYRACH at the release party for the band's sophomore album, "A Dark Burial", on Friday, July 31 in Bergen, Holland. According to the group, "Hjarandr decided to leave the band now because he wanted to focus on his...

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NIGHTMARE: 'Insurrection' Artwork Revealed

French power metallers NIGHTMARE will release their seventh album, "Insurrection", on September 11 via Germany's AFM Records. The CD was recorded at Peek studio in France with Patrick Liotard and at U3multimedia and Indiscreet Studios in Stuttgart, Germany with Achim Köhler (PRIMAL FEAR, EDGUY, MAST...